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[Quote] Camelot group to sue G-tech over UK Lottery Commission decision Monday August 28th 2000 The Camelot group says it will take legal action against its software supplier GTECH Holdings Crop, because of the reasons its bid to run the lottery for the next seven-years period was rejected by the UK National Lottery Commission. GTECH took two years to tell the Lottery Commission about a glitch in its software that duplicate some winning lottery tickets. Although GTECH announced las
Apr 1, 2009, 12:04 pm - lottoshlep - Mathematics Forum

Mathematics and the LotteryReply
How much can you expect to win if you buy up every possible combination of lottery numbers? The UK National Lottery recently increased its ticket price to 2. With 49 numbers to choose from, though, your chances of winning are tiny (1 in 13,983,816 to be exact). Unless, that is, you buy up every single possible combination of numbers. This is exactly what Stefan Mandel, a Romanian mathematician, did in 1992 when he netted US$28m in the Virginia State Lottery. So how much can you expect to w
Nov 28, 2013, 12:34 am - JKING - Mathematics Forum

Mathematics and the LotteryReply
Your logical thinking concludes that beyond buying lottery tickets, there's nothing a player can do to improve his chances of winning other than buying more lottery tickets and picking combinations using a system at best is no better than buying randomly picked combinations (quick-picks). If you believed that then prove it by simply posting randomly picked combinations on the prediction board and when your results matched those of other top predictors reveal your method of simply picking comb
Aug 19, 2011, 9:31 am - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

Mandalas from images of lottery tickets
I'm going to make a thread showing how to make a mandala-type image in GIMP starting from a low-res image of a lottery ticket, such as this one which I got from Stat$talker's post https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/327102/6768218 I think this falls under math because...reasons.
Oct 23, 2021, 12:08 pm - cottoneyedjoe - Mathematics Forum

Probability related questionReply
D D, I sympathize. I only spend about $4 per week. I buy one ticket for each drawing of the Powerball and the state lottery. I have to drive out of state to get them, so I buy a 15-draw multi-draw ticket once every 7 1/2 weeks. On the days that I buy my tickets, I pick up a few scratchers; my wife likes them, but I admit I'd probably buy a few for myself if she didn't. :) The odds of winning are not good, but they are zero if I don't participate at all; and the difference between good and
Mar 2, 2008, 6:20 am - Mike Frazier - Mathematics Forum

What Will You do if You Was a Human Calculator (Alexis Lemaire)Reply
The reason I asked the questions was there was a story on sixty minutes a few years ago about a small town in Texas that played a lottery as a group, got lucky and won. The jackpot was big enough that everyone who participated got a least a million dollars. A woman who clerked in the local gas station that sold lottery tickets came up with a plan and talked most of the local people into pooling their money for a one shot deal and most went along with her. I was thinking more along the line
Dec 18, 2007, 3:56 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

Odds/Number Of TicketsReply
This was a great post. I am really starting to understand the issue of quick picks better. It is almost as if the quick picks represent one guy buying millions of tickets and of course eventually he will win because of the volume he is buying. Florida does have a lot of quick pick winners, probably in the 50 to 60% range. There are also almost 15 million persons now in Florida with at least 1,000 plus new residents every day. At least that is what the tourist bureau says. So as you can s
Dec 1, 2006, 9:51 am - floridian - Mathematics Forum

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Hello LottoHackJack I know this much that lotteries are not random and also all the different draws are linked and they switch numbers between these draws and they use the same belt as I provided information for it! One of my reasons is that I have collected over 400 tickets which one line (all 6 numbers) took match to lotto draw but 3/4 numbers in lotto draw one number in daily draw and one number in thunder ball draw! This can happen once or twice but not 400 times, the ticket which coul
Mar 31, 2009, 3:55 am - Moses - Mathematics Forum

How the lottery generates the ticket numbersReply
The story referenced by JadeLottery is almost certainly in error. Assuming it is, it's a safe bet that the reporter got accurate info from the lottery spokesman and then screwed it up. Just about every reliable source says that the terminal generates the numbers, and the job of the central computer is to create a record of each play and after that record is created authorize the terminal to generate the ticket. I'm not sure what you think is difficult to prevent. If you think it would be diff
Jan 19, 2016, 2:15 am - KY Floyd - Mathematics Forum

Odds of winning.Reply
An idea is becoming a retailer and validating tickets in your own business. A percentage of the spent money on lottery tickets would return into your pocket. How about that for improving the payout?
Aug 17, 2013, 7:50 pm - SergeM - Mathematics Forum